Giuseppe De Mattia, Aldo Grittani
‘FROM | TO’
Galleria F Project, Bari
7.6.2012 - 30.6.2012
“The landscape” becomes the ground for comparison between two artistic paths curiously similar that of Aldo Grittani and Giuseppe De Mattia. Both with a different artistic experience and education background they converge to reflect on the landscape that becomes path, an invitation to recompose, a map that is not a functional synecdoche, a treasure that does not collect souvenirs, but traces of paths. Without knowing each other, the two artists have documented the Italian region of Puglia. In doing so, the works that make up the exhibition FROM | TO offer several suggestions far from returning postcards or complaints. Puglia is a place, yet it could be anywhere, as a border area between rural and human intervention. It is precisely the subjectivity of everyone having to make sense. The path is a process, according to which the walking confuses ends and means. The artists are ‘pedestrians’, in the sense of those who walk. Points of departure and arrival take a minor interest, therefore the title does not specify them. The exhibition offers an open ticket to a journey as much it emphasizes the dialogue between the artists Aldo Grittani and Giuseppe De Mattia.
© Courtesy F Project | Giuseppe De Mattia